Pickett v. Advance Auto Parts

McCULLOUGH, Judge.

*247 Advance Auto Parts ("employer") and ACE American Insurance Company ("carrier") through Sedgwick CMS ("administrator") (together "defendants") appeal from an opinion and award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (the "Commission") awarding worker's compensation benefits in favor of Antonio Pickett ("employee"). For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. Background

Employee was employed by employer as a salesperson and driver and was working in the Advance Auto Parts store on Randleman Road in Greensboro on the morning of 3 September 2012 when an armed robbery occurred at…